Donbass, Summer 2014. At the exploded bridge over the river, on the other side of which are the positions of the separatists, the fighter of the Ukrainian battalion "Aidar" Ruslan and his friend, a director from Russia Beata Bubenets, are video. When Beata worked in the combat area, the Ukrainians took her as a Russian spy, detained her, but Ruslan's friends rescued Beata from captivity, and she began to make a film about Aydar fighters.

On Friday evening, several publics on the VKontakte social network, including VKontakte’s official communities, published reports about the murder of opposition Alexei Navalny. In the messages spreading on behalf of the Internet publication "Medusa", it was argued that Navalny was killed in the entrance of his house. Medusa said that messages are distributed from a fake account, and the publication itself has nothing to do with their distribution.

The Civil Initiative party at its congress officially nominated the TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak as a candidate in the 2018 presidential election. 96 delegates voted for such a decision, and 7 against Sobchak also published its election program.

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The headquarters of the supporters of Alexei Navalny in Irkutsk On Sunday, in twenty cities of Russia, meetings of voters are planned, dedicated to the nomination of Alexei Navalny as a candidate for presidential elections. In some cases, local election commissions confirmed that they will send their representatives to the events. In St. Petersburg, activists of the Open Russia movement on Saturday morning held an action in support of Alexei Navalny.

In Novosibirsk, more than a hundred protesters entered a rally against concession agreements. They are unhappy with the decision of the regional authorities to conclude an agreement with investors on the construction of garbage plants and a bridge over the Ob, the Siberia. Real website reports .

The leader of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, was detained in the Kuntsevo area on Saturday. He arrived at the action of local residents protesting against developers from the PIK company. The police detained me to get down against the raiding of the company Pick on the street. Academician Pavlova.

In Alushta, the police tore off the meeting of local residents who opposed the development of the city embankment on June 4. According to eyewitnesses, the security forces demanded "stop the unauthorized rally." The deputy Pavel Steppanchenko present there replied that this was a meeting with voters, about which he notified the local city administration. The police grabbed the deputy, broke his hands and took him. Those who tried to protect him were loaded into police cars.

A candidate for president of Russia from the monarchical party was its founder - businessman Anton Bakov. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, delegates of all 45 representatives of the party voted for its nomination. For several years, Bakov was a deputy of the State Duma, and also participated in the elections of the mayor of Yekaterinburg and the governor of the Sverdlovsk region.

In the Tula region, the police detained two truckers from the trade union of professional drivers, who supports protest against the Plato payment system. The human rights portal "OTD-Info" reports that Alexander Goldak and Andrey Vedeniev were detained at the entrances of his houses. Last Thursday, they were already taken to the police when they were heading for the trial to the trucker Yuri Bubnov. He disputed the fine written through Plato.

American soldiers in Afghanistan, November 2017 The Federal Court of Appeal in Washington rejected the lawsuit of the US administration, which tried to challenge previous court decisions on the issue of the armed forces service for transgender people. According to Judge Heses Bernal, the initiative of the US president will cause "irreparable damage" to the military now in the ranks of the Armed Forces.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, claims that he is “satisfied” with the disappearance of his account on the social network Instagram. “I myself had to go up with the idea of leaving this network for a long time,” Kadyrov wrote on Saturday in Telegram . Kadyrov did not write about the reasons for the disappearance of his page, hinting only that the Instagram network itself and "her patrons in the White House" could be involved in this.

The US intelligence services managed to prevent a terrorist attack, which was intended to carry out at San Francisco for Christmas (December 25) an adherent of the Islamic State group recognized in many terrorist countries. The Federal Bureau of Investigations on Friday reported the detention of a 26-year-old resident of California, a former naval infantryman who allegedly prepared an attack. A weapon and a note were found in his house, which refers to the intention to become a suicide bomber.

Alexey Navalny In St. Petersburg, activists of the Open Russia movement on Saturday morning held an action in support of Alexei Navalny. They hung a banner on the Bolsheokhtinsky bridge with a request to register an opposition policy as a candidate in the 2018 presidential election. This morning in St.

The event "Day of Free Elections" will be held on December 24 in Moscow, despite the court prohibition. This was written on his Facebook by the organizer - the head of the Krasnoselsky district Ilya Yashin. He emphasized that the decision of the Moscow City Court on December 20 was appealed and has not yet entered into legal force. He called the court decision on the adoption of interim measures "unauthorized." Yashin announced the "Day of Free Elections" last week.